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Off the Shelf
By Catherine Dunne
| Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Ever since I read A THOUSAND ACRES, I have loved the work of
Jane Smiley. That novel has it all: love, lust, rivalry, betrayal, loss,
grief, conflict, wisdom. It reworks Shakespeare’s tale of King Lear—that
“fond, foolish old man.” By locating her story in a farming community in
contemporary Iowa, Smiley shows us how all the best stories are timeless.
They deal with what it is to be human, to find our way through a world that
is often hostile and always confusing. READ MORE
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